Maxim Gorky's Early Romantic work in the reception of Literary Criticism in China

The subject of the study is the evolution of perception and variability of interpretations of works of early romantic creativity by Maxim Gorky in China. The object of the study is many works by Chinese researchers devoted to the Russian classics over the past century. The author examines in detail how the process of shifting the accents of Chinese literary critics in the interpretation of Gorky's early romantic work from politics and ethics to aesthetics takes place. Special attention is paid to such works as "On Gorky's Early Romantic Works" (1980) by Fu Lingmei, "Gorky's Barefoot Stories" (1986) by Chen Xihan, "Gorky's Contribution to European Wandering Literature and Art" (1995) by Li Zhibin, "On the Artistic Style of Gorky's Early Wandering Works" (1999) by Tang Ihon, "The linguistic style in the story "The Old Woman Izergil"" (2012) by Yang Peng. In the course of the research of this article, the corporate method, the cultural-historical method and the hermeneutic method are used. A special contribution of the author to the study of the topic is that he points to a gradual change in the perspective of attention of Chinese literary critics from the plan of content to the plan of form, while the clearly politicized interpretation of Gorky's writings goes away, more is said about the meaningful form – poetics. The innovation of the article also lies in the systematization of Gorky studies in China, in discovering in it a shift in emphasis from politics and ethics towards aesthetics, all that had not previously been noted by literary critics either in China or in Russia. This work can contribute to the intensification of the consideration of historical and literary ties between Russia and China, contribute to the expansion of the subject of works of this kind, which will eventually deepen further mutual understanding between the two peoples.

Maxim Gorky, Russian literature, early romantic works, history of Chinese literature, literary criticism, reception, poetics, interpretation, Gorky studies in China, evolution